The hiring emails started arriving in Allison Skager’s inbox the first week of her first job after graduating law school. Now, more than a year since she started as an associate in Crowell & Moring’s Los Angeles office, the inbox deluge still shapes her morning routine. When Skager logs on […]
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By now, Floridians don’t need to be told that home insurance rates are skyrocketing. Increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other storms are one reason. They make us a bigger risk. But Florida hasn’t experienced a major hurricane since 2017′s Irma, which affected most of the state, and Michael, […]
Russia initiated a full-scale invasion of one of its sovereign neighbors and the Western world has responded with censure and fury. Our governments and financial institutions have cut off Russian access to money. Our tech companies, who have been vocally neutral in other conflicts, have sided with Ukraine against Russian. […]
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison offices in Washington. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Cleary Gottlieb, Debevoise, Paul Weiss, others, say they will pay associates on Davis Polk’s new scale Mid-level, senior associates are highly valued by large firms Large U.S. law firms are […]
As the legal industry’s red-hot talent market reaches a boiling point, some law firm leaders are desperate to hold onto the people they have, sometimes using tactics that could backfire. Stefanie Marrone, a legal marketing consultant, recently spoke with a firm that wanted to remove associates’ biographies from the firm […]
As Big Law showers associates with cash, corporate legal departments are going to have to get more creative about luring in-house legal talent from the most prestigious law firms—or wave the white flag and start looking elsewhere for recruits. This development was coming long before the latest salvo in the […]
Some of Pennsylvania’s largest firms granted partner status to their largest cohorts of lawyers in recent history this year in another bid to retain talent by offering a clear path to partnership. Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Dechert and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, among others, promoted significantly more lawyers to […]
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Signage is seen outside of the law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 30, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis will be eligible for equity partnership after nine years Experts say move could aid recruitment […]